The ground testing for the half-scale electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) demonstrator, SYLLA SYL-X1 developed by Bengaluru based Sarla Aviation took place on Monday (December 22, 2025).
The ground testing took place at the company’s Bengaluru test facility.
Sarla Aviation said that with a 7.5-meter wingspan, SYL-X1 represents the largest and most advanced private eVTOL demonstrator of its kind currently under development in India.
“Achieved in approximately nine months of development and at a fraction of the capital typically required for comparable global programs, the milestone marks a level of engineering scale, execution speed, and systems maturity not previously demonstrated by a private aerospace company in the country,” it said.
With ground testing now underway, Sarla Aviation said its air taxi program enters its core validation phase, moving decisively beyond digital concepts and laboratory-scale experimentation into real aircraft-scale testing.
